LinoCat

Here you can see the island Baradel in the Tobago Cays. The small beach is part of a turtle protection area where you can watch turtles. You can go there by Dinghy but only slowly directly to the beach. Most of the time we directly snorkeled there from the boat. In the back you see the horseshoe reef which protects this anchorage. The kite was approx. 100-150m high. A a nice seastar right under LinoCat. Turtle eating sea gras. Another one swimming by. Race with a turtle :-)

Hi, many have asked us about the "How?" of using a kite while sailing to get some pictures of your boat. First, you need the willingness to loose all the money you invest in it. The chances are there that the wind dies down once your equipment is 100m up in the air it will just be ditched in the water. Not willing to accept that? Then don´t do it! Otherwise you need a kite next. I use a Sutton flowform single line kite for that. You also need a bracket to fix the camera to. This usually has a pivacet system installed. This contains 4 smal pulleys and a piece of rope and is a masterpiece of efficiency. It makes sure that the angle of the camera is kept independent of the angle the line has. As a digital camera take a cheap one with wide angle lens and important: An integrated intervall timer! This you can set to 5 seconds and then the camera will click a snap every 5 seconds. With a 8GB SD card this gives you plenty of pictures and maybe 1% is good :-) I use a Ricoh Caplio 6 ...